The New Essential Apps November 2012

iPhones. iPads. Android. Windows Phone. We've updated all of our essential apps lists to include a few forgotten favourites, some long-awaited arrivals and even more amazing apps. Check them out!

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The Best iPhone Apps November 2012

Beamr: The problem with uploading your iPhone pics to Facebook? It scales down the quality by a lot. But Beamr lets your snaps hold onto all their precious pixels, and shares them to your social networks in a lovely magazine-style format. Free.

Expedia: Travel can be totally stressful, so the easier it is to book everything the better. Now Expedia will let you book both hotels and flights in the same app. (The old version was just hotels). On to your next vacation! Free.

RoadTrippers: Long ago, when we hit the road, we'd — gasp — print out directions. Screw that. Instead, plan a route with RoadTrippers. It tips you off to points of interest and even gives turn-by-turn directions so you never have to stop at some sketchy petrol station and ask where you are. Free.

The Best Android Apps November 2012

GoPro: Have a GoPro? Now you can control it from your Android phone. You can check out your own videos as well as EXTREME CLIPS others have uploaded. Free.

Amazon Cloud Drive Photos: If you stash your stuff with Amazon, you'll want to download this, a standalone photo storage app for Android. Perks include 5GB of free storage and uploading entire albums at a time from your phone or tablet. Free.

SmartGlass: The wait is over. Download SmartGlass to control your Xbox from your phone. Basically you never have to leave your couch ever again. Free.

The Best iPad Apps November 2012

Etsy: Whether you're looking for some artisan beard oil or a vintage leather backpack, you can probably find it on Etsy using its new iPad app. It will also suggest sellers and items it thinks are particularly good and provide you with how-to videos you can beam to your TV using AirPlay. Free.

Dropcam: A few weeks ago we spent a few days following Franky the turtle crawling around a pet store on Dropcam. The video monitoring service/nanny cam now has an iPad app, which, thank god because that turtle is too damn entertaining. You can also watch other feeds, or if you have an actual Dropcam Camera, you can keep tabs on your own home or business. Free.

Butterball Cookbook Plus: How do you make a Christmas goose? This app has all the culinary know-how you need, complete with step-by-step voice controlled instructions. And once the holidays are done, it'll give you recipes for the rest of the year. $5.49.

Path: The anti-overshare social network's iPad app just launched with some tablet-exclusive features like landscape view, which shows you all the news from just today in a beautiful, picture heavy, tile-like design. And of course, you can still post things like what you're eating, who you're with, and where you are, but your audience is limited to your actual friends as opposed to everyone you've met, ever. Free.

Comments

Not a single thing here, on any platform, I could ever see myself wanting to use. And the detailed list for WinPhone 7 needs to be reviewed for Australia, as apps like eBay are very poor here (you get US results first) and Shazam is not as good as Bing at identifying songs.

I agree with MotorMouth & doobi. "Essential Apps" is a poor choice of words. And it must be a major struggle to find new interesting apps every month, I'd recommend sticking to a "top apps of 2012" lists instead

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